During our recent vacation traveling around Europe, we spent a few days in London and had some of the best food of the entire trip there. And that’s saying something because we at a LOT of delicious food in Europe!

Mr. Hungry’s favorite was the meat pies – and there were soooo many delicious options to choose from! Beyond just your typical shepherd’s pie or cottage pie, there is steak and ale pie, steak and kidney pie, meat stews of all types that are wrapped or topped with puff pastry, biscuits, shortcrust pastry, etc. You name it and they have got a meat + starch/crust option at pretty much every restaurant and market and it’s going to taste amazing.

Our hand’s down favorite was the “Deer Stalker,” a venison, dry cured bacon, red wine and green lentil pie with gravy and mashed potatoes that we had at Pieminister at the Borough Street Market. It was straight up incredible (and not at all keto – but we didn’t eat keto on the trip and I have zero regrets or guilt about that.)

BTW if you’re ever in London and near the Borough Market… GO THERE. EAT EVERYTHING. THE END.

Anyhoo, when we got home from our trip and back on keto, we dreamed of the meat pies and felt sad about it. So I promised Mr. Hungry that I would make a keto beef stew / meat pie that was equally as rich, hearty, and comfort food-y as the ones we had in England.

1000% honesty? This keto beef stew & cheesy biscuit crust is really good, and most importantly, totally guilt free and keto friendly….. buuuuuttt not as good as the carb-laden real thing.

I mean meat pies in London are just legendary and unmatched. It’s a thing. So I’m absolutely ok with coming in second best on this one.

Full disclosure, I forgot the egg in the batter for the biscuit crust, so they disintegrated a little more than they should have and the bottom half melted into the keto beef stew. Still delicious, but less of the actual fluffy biscuit on top than I would have liked.

Not to worry, the egg is included in the recipe below – and as long as you don’t space out and forget it like I did, you’ll have a fluffy and tender cheddar and thyme biscuit crust on top that perfectly complements the beefy filling in this keto beef stew.

For the keto beef stew filling, I used radishes and celery to bulk it up without adding extra carbs – which made it sufficiently hearty, and you can barely tell it’s not potatoes that you’re eating!

I used a little whiskey for flavor, but you could substitute red wine or omit it altogether if you prefer – I do recommend trying it though if you have some one hand. A little dijon mustard and Worcestershire sauce also gives the gravy a nice depth and richness beyond your average keto beef stew.

With a long, cold winter on the horizon, I’m confident that you’re going to want to put this keto beef stew & cheesy biscuit crust into your regular rotation. And if you’ve got a beef stew + cheesy biscuit loving tribe at home, you won’t be getting any complaints from them either!

As an added bonus, this low carb beef stew keeps well in the fridge all week and reheats just fine in the microwave – though reheating in the oven will help keep the biscuit top crispier if you’ve got the time.

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Love this stew! I’ve started making it in 9 oz ramekins, perfect portion size. I sub turnips if I don’t have the radishes on hand. I also added 1/2 tsp Old Bay seasoning to the biscuits the last time I made it, and got pretty darn close to the taste of the cheddar bay biscuits from a certain sea food chain restaurant. Great recipe! Thanks for sharing it with us.

I’m making this for a 2nd time, because it’s sooo good. It is very time consuming, so I chopped, prepped, and got my dry ingredients measured out the night before. Thank you so much for his recipe, as it is now my favorite Keto dish. So savory! I feel like I’m being bad, but I’m being good. 😊💞

My family loved this recipe – the meat was so tender. I didn’t have any whiskey, so I just left it out. Some of my biscuits turned mushy, but I think it was because I wasn’t patient enough to reduce the stew as much as I should have. Even my 12 year old said this needs to be made again!

This stew AND the biscuits were next level amazing! Thank you for creating the perfect comfort food. Like all of your recipes, it was greatly appreciated and loved by everyone here :) For the Dijon I used an incredible truffle honey Dijon from Trader Joe’s. I also did swap out whiskey for red wine, and I added a can of diced tomatoes as well. The thyme and cheddar cheese in the biscuits were perfect. They kept their shape and fluffiness without issue. Thanks again!

Excellent! I made this tonight and was impressed. I was terrified the biscuits would sink right in, but they baked up nice and fluffy on top. I enjoyed the crispy biscuit bits, so I’m excited to bake them on their own next time, too.

These biscuits are the best! I baked them separately and they are now are favorite bucuits! The stew was really good, but next time I’ll leave out Worcestershire sauce and whiskey and just use beef broth. The beef is so tender and really good.

I love a good beef stew, but this didn’t thrill anyone in my family and took sooo much time. Maybe I reduced it a bit too much, but it tasted just meh. And the biscuits disintegrated so that it looked like brown much by the time it was served up. Also seemed like too much salt. Apparently, this is just me, though, so maybe I did something wrong.

Made this tonight and the hubs and I agreed, we will look forward to having this again! Only two of us so I halved the recipe and still enough for one of us to have lunch!! I did use homemade beef bone broth instead of water, and a splash or two of red wine. Make sure your pan size is appropriate, because my pan was a little too big and so my gravy dried out more than it should have. My mistake, hope you learn from it. Flavor was wonderful! I also added rosemary to the stew and biscuits. Thank you Melissa!! You take ordinary and make it extraordinary!!❤️

Omg¡! I am brand spanking new to Keto, started today, and I love your blog. It reads so easy, it funny, and honest, I could read it all day. I’m really glad I found this, because I will be coming here often. Can’t wait to try this, and that chocolate mousse recipe. 😋

When I found out about radishes as a swap for potatoes – I was in heaven! No surprise that you are using them!! It’s actually chilly here in Florida and I do love a comfy stew! It will probably get made this week!

Made this for the first time this weekend, and it was AMAZING. Keto and non-keto people alike raved, the biscuits were such an awesome touch to an already great stew. THANK YOU for this recipe! My only adjustment was using beef broth instead of water.

So perfect for the recently cold weather, cannot rave enough about this recipe.

Finally got a chance to make this, on our first snowy day in NYC. It was fantastic! Only modifications I made were using rosemary instead of thyme and arrowroot instead of xanthan gum. Seriously perfect meal for a cold day stuck inside.

I’m just getting back into the swing of keto and wanted to make something my boyfriend would love as well. Stew is one of his favourites and I was assumed he would find it just ok but he ate almost half the recipe! He really loved the biscuits on top and how well it went with the dish. I ended up adding half a cube of beef bullion but otherwise this was a perfect fall meal. Thanks so much!

This was very delicious! I made the stew portion in a pressure cooker, 20 minutes on high, and finished in the oven as written. I didn’t have whiskey, but I did swap water for mushroom stock. The biscuits were light and very flavorful.

Could I substitute a different sweetener for erythritol, or is it necessary for browning? Hubby can’t eat it at all without violent digestive consequences. Thanks! The rest of the recipe looks fabulous!

You can replace it with another sweetener that he can tolerate better. I suppose you could leave it out but I think the flavor of the biscuit would be a little off balance – not altogether horrible though!

Cannot wait to try this – if anything like ALL your other recipes it is going to be A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! I’ll be back as soon as I make it. Thank you for all your hard work in making this fabulous recipes for all of us to enjoy!

I can’t wait to make this. My husband loves hearty dishes like this, and he is also a whisky connoisseur , so win-win!

I was so happy to read that you loved the food in England. So many Americans have a preconceived notion that English food is not good and I explain to so many, that over the last 25 years the food has done a complete turn around and the food there is now fantastic. There is an incredible variety of flavors and global inspiration has transformed even the most traditional dishes. I love meat pies (and pasties and sausage rolls) and there were so many types to chose from on my last trip (I am thinking of you Curry Chicken Pie) I am so happy that you have brought that love home with you and I am looking forward to some of your future creations.

For years I’d been hearing that the food in England was tasteless and uninspired, so we were thrilled to find that was so very very untrue! I have a LONG list of recipe inspiration from this trip, and many of them are from our brief time in London! We are very much looking forward to going back and seeing more of the city and surrounding countryside on a longer trip to that area! Hope you guys enjoy this recipe!

You won’t know until you try it Heather – cooking the radishes mellows them out so they have almost no flavor at all on their own and soak up the flavor of whatever they are simmered in – much like potatoes!

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